It’s seems to be that gold is pretty common to find in the ancient world regardless of the culture. Statues, jewelry, clothing, etc. However gold just doesn’t seem to be all that abundant. So what happened? Why did gold become so much more rare as time went on, or has it always been this rare? Where were all the major gold mines in the ancient world and are they depleted?
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Gold and silver was used as cash. So people would keep their gold and silver with them and easily accessible, even showing it off. It would also be traded a lot, a lot of the jewelry you are talking about would change hands about once a month so the same jewelry would be seen on different people throughout the year.
Today we have a lot of gold and silver, a lot more then they had in the ancient world. However it is all locked away in vaults. Gold is inconvenient to lug around. And it might even look kind of cheap and tacky. If you look at someone with five gold rings and a gold chain you would consider them stupid for not investing that gold in something to make more money.
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